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1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth﻿ may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect﻿﻿ peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting﻿﻿ strength:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.(Isaiah 26:1-6)

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Monday, September 3, 2007

Today's youtube video of the day is a double platinum edition, because we have neglected to post anything in the last few days and I got a jonez. In all actuality, I ran across something interesting while I was researching) the original video I wanted to post by Howard Zinn (http://howardzinn.org/default/). Zinn is an unlikely historian who does history research from an interesting perspective, that of the grassroots, common man.This perspective is best exhibited in his seminal work "A People's History of the Unitied States." (http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/apeopleshistory.html)Google has scanned the entire book and you can read it at your leisure here (http://books.google.com/books?id=9-FtlblxbLgC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=B_YH7AuAXw&sig=_H8WOL8Gdi0PSGtNNz5biGCxhgE&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3DA%2BPeoples%2BHistory%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates%26start%3D0%26start%3D0%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PRA1-PA297,M1).While I was researching some links to Howard Zinn on the web I ran acrossthis second video of Mos Def (http://www.geocities.com/mosdef2002/biography.html)reading an excerpt of a Malcom X (http://www.soapblox.net/myleftwing/showDiary.do;jsessionid=89452B4D62C8471C78F936956CFCBC81?diaryId=8744) speech referenced in Zinn's book "A People's History..." I had to include this clip, if only for the purpose of expanding our understanding of what is out here on the worldwide web. Let me qualify that I agree with Malcom X's post-hajj enlightened view of race and geopolitics (http://www.soapblox.net/myleftwing/showDiary.do;jsessionid=89452B4D62C8471C78F936956CFCBC81?diaryId=8744). I can listen to his speeches from when he was a devout Black Nationalist under the tutelage of Elijah Mohammed ( http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmuhammad.htm)and the NOI (http://www.noi.org/), but I can not agree with many of the generalizations and assumptions they posited, or the violence they prescribed. I also understand that that was a different time and milieu. Enjoy the videos.